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I use Ubuntu and it's the exact same thing for me, so I don't think it's MacOS-specific. To be honest, the whole versioning quagmire is the main reason why I do

I use Ubuntu and it's the exact same thing for me, so I don't think it's MacOS-specific. To be honest, the whole versioning quagmire is the main reason why I don't use Python as one of my main languages, but just as an outsider like you. I like the language but I hate wasting my time with that kind of thing. Say what you will about Java, but you can just slap a jar file into a folder and it will work with the latest version, with zero drama.

mehrdadn 8y ago
I feel like the fundamental issue is that it simply does not make sense for pip to be able to install or upgrade any Python packages managed by the system package manager, any more than it makes sense for it to upgrade the system-level Python interpreter itself. It should just outright not have the ability to do this.
c22 8y ago
On my Debian box I notice I have pip2.7 and python2.7, but also pip3.4, python3.4, pip3.6, python3.6, etc... If I want to install something for python2.7 I just use pip2.7. It looks like on this system python and pip are just symlinks to python2.7 and pip2.7 while python3 and pip3 link to python3.8 and pip3.8 It never seemed that hard to keep track of the different versions.